Virtualization platforms offer companies significant
advantages over multiple server environments. They increase the IT
network efficiency of the company and also reduce costs and time
commitments to creating a business management system. Multiple server
environments create unnecessary wasted space and need to be constantly
worked on by IT network administrators. Virtualization platforms are the
solution to these problems.
A multiple server environment requires that each application and
operating system be stored on its own dedicated server. This requires
companies to spend a lot of money purchasing and housing the servers
while accumulating wasted space that the company will not use. Each
additional server also requires an IT admin to take time out of his or
her day to update, archive and back up the server.
Virtualization platforms provide a company with a way to eliminate
multiple server environments. On a virtualization platform each
application and operating system can be consolidated onto a single
server. The server can then be accessed by different virtual machines
that share the server's resources. This eliminates the need to purchase
and house multiple machines and eliminates wasted space. Consolidating
information also allows IT admins to focus their skills in areas that
can benefit the company.
A virtual infrastructure is dynamic and responds and responds to the
needs of the moment but it must be protected from common problems that
cause resources to be shared inefficiently and cause the platform to
sacrifice I/O bandwidth. These problems include I/O bottlenecks that are
the product of continuous generation unnecessary I/Os and result in
slower speeds. Resource conflicts as virtual machines compete for shared
resources without knowing the exact hardware resource usage. Wasted
disk space happens when virtual disks that are set to dynamically change
size do not shrink when data are removed, resulting in unusable disk
space on the platform.
To combat these problems it is important that a company installs a
virtualization platform disk optimizer. V-locity 3 is a virtualization
platform disk optimizer that is designed to improve the performance and
efficiency of all VMware ESX/ESXi and Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisor
virtual platforms. It does this automatically, smartly and invisibly.
V-locity 3 uses a unique blend of technology to create faster virtual
machine and host I/O throughput, increase virtual machine density,
increase platform reliability, zero resource contention, optimize
virtual resource usage within a shared storage system, increase hardware
life and lower operating costs. IntelliWrite® Technology is used to
prevent most fragmentation before it can happen to boost performance
speed. V-Aware™
detects external resource usage from other virtual
machines and eliminates resource contention that would otherwise exist
on the same Host Server. CogniSAN™ technology detects external
resource usage on a shared storage system and allows for transparent
optimization by never competing for resources with other virtual
machines.
V-locity 3 also incorporates Automatic Space Reclamation to zero out
unused data blocks on virtual disks and ease the compaction process,
allowing for VMotion or Live Migration to compact disks on-the-fly.
Special Virtual Disk Auto Detection allows each V-locity Guest to
conform its optimization settings to the type of virtual disk that the
virtual machine is using. InvisiTasking® technology means that this
all happens invisibly in the background to eliminate resource impact.
Every virtualization system needs to be protected from the problems that
decrease the value of the entire platform. Preventing these problems
takes no more effort than installing a virtualization platform disk
optimizer like V-locity 3 that will eliminate all of the common problems
that present obstacles to virtualization platforms operate at their
peak efficiency.
